Grade 5 Light and Sound Energy

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Physical Science (PS)
Topic: light, Sound and Motion
Content: Light and sound are forms of energy that behave in predictable ways.

Lesson Plans
  • Lemon Light
  • The Bending and Bouncing Light
  • Wave Motion
*All lessons above are from ORC

Discrepant Events
  • Olympic Ski Challenge (properties of light) ORC # 2367

STEM Events

Simulations (Project WET, Project WILD, etc.)

Web sites/ORC sites
  • ORC # 2367 Olympic Ski Challenge
  • ORC # 2639 Lemon Light (Refracting Light)
  • ORC # 12200 The Bending and Bouncing of Light
  • ORC # 3833 Wave Motion

Literature
  • Sound Waves by Ian F. Mahaney
  • Light by Penelope Arlon
  • Light: look out! by Wendy Sadler

Text References
  • The Science of Sound: Projects with experiments with music and sound waves
  • Sound and Light by David Glover

Related Vocabulary words
  • refracting
  • reflecting
  • vibration
  • waves (transverse and longitudinal)
  • thermal, chemical, and electrical energy